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The Brennan Center is supporting North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper's lawsuit against the state's General Assembly. This litigation arises out of the Republican-dominated North Carolina Legislature’s efforts to use affirmative misleading ballot language for constitutional amendments that would cement partisan control of the state.

The Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965 to ensure state and local governments do not pass laws or policies that deny American citizens the equal right to vote based on race. On June 25, 2013, the Supreme Court swept away a key provision of this landmark civil rights law in Shelby County v. Holder.

On April 25, 2018, a ballot question committee and two individual voters filed suit in Michigan state court to block a ballot proposal that would establish an independent redistricting commission for drawing Michigan’s congressional and state legislative electoral maps.